Employers remain hesitant to hold mandatory anti-union meetings during organizing campaigns despite questions about whether state or federal bans on what are commonly known as captive audience meetings would ultimately be enforced against them.
Flowers Foods Inc. and two affiliates have pressed the First Circuit to uphold an order sending a Rhode Island bread distributor's wage suit to arbitration, arguing the distributor's agreement was a business-to-business contract that falls outside a Federal Arbitration Act exemption.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is looking to scrap its decades-old requirements mandating that large employers report their workplace demographics, but employment attorneys said companies would be wise to keep collecting this employee data anyway.